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by vivegi 5mo ago
Platform Scale: How an emerging business model helps startups build large empires with minimum investment, _by Sangeet Paul Choudary_ (Sep 2015) https://www.amazon.com/Platform-Scale-emerging-business-inve... This book has
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by vivegi 1y ago
I wrote a game (SAT solving was the inspiration) back in 2022. https://vivegi.github.io/Trek/
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by vivegi 1y ago
This sounds like a shortcut, unless it isn't. I have a feeling this is going to make debugging code written just a few months ago incrementally difficult. At least the explicit if statements are easier to follow the intent from months
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by vivegi 1y ago
Cool. I used the Windows snipping tool and just screen-recorded it.
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by vivegi 3y ago
Layout analysis is the key. Quite a bit of work has been going on recently in this area. Some papers of relevance: - Xu Zhong, Jianbin Tang, Antonio Jimeno Yepes. "PubLayNet: largest dataset ever for document layout analysis,"
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by vivegi 3y ago
all is a bit of overreach. GPT-4 can't solve Millenium Prize problems or other open problems in other domains yet.
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by vivegi 3y ago
Synthesis capability: When the system is capable of deriving established knowledge from first principles (similar to theorem proving from axioms) Gap detection: The system is able to identify gaps in established knowledge Path/problem
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by vivegi 3y ago
It is அன்னாசி (Aṉṉāci) in Tamil. https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=ta&text=pineapple&o...
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by vivegi 3y ago
Not WASM-related, but just a few days ago we had a Cosmopolitan libc announcement on HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38101613 This promises a single C code base and portable executable generation for Linux Ma
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by vivegi 3y ago
ArXiv preprint [PDF] here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2310.20689.pdf
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by vivegi 3y ago
Landed successfully at the Lunar south pole area.
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by vivegi 3y ago
There's no footage from the last one as the lander crash-landed on the surface of the moon. NASA reported locating the Vikram Lander's debris in Dec 2019: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2019&#
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by vivegi 3y ago
That is a nice method to compute determinants of matrices. I wish they taught this method when I was in high school. As John D Cook points out, the fact that the core 2x2 matmul operations that can be done in parallel is a big benefit for
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by vivegi 3y ago
No. Regulatory challenges (Jurisdiction India).
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by vivegi 3y ago
The general guidance is that you segment your application domain into two categories - Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP). The OLAP data is populated from the OLTP data using queries (snapshot table
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by vivegi 3y ago
> Biggar also contends that British rule in India, initially under the auspices of the East India Company (EIC) from the 1750s and direct colonial rule after 1857, was far from the rapacious affair that Whigs at the time (Burke springs t
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by vivegi 3y ago
Yes. The name/id choice recommendation has been evolving since the original HTML spec. For modern browsers (in 2023), you are right about the id attribute. Some very old browsers needed the name anchors.
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by vivegi 3y ago
Name Anchors has been a thing in HTML for a very long time (at least since HTML 2.0 spec [1], if not earlier). <a name="myanchor"><h3>Things to do</h3></a> If the CMS supports name anchors,
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by vivegi 3y ago
The book covers it in Appendix A.6 (p 424) in the v2023.06.11a PDF file. > A.6 What is the Difference Between “Concurrent” and “Parallel”? > From a classic computing perspective, “concurrent” and “parallel” are clearly synonyms. Howev
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by vivegi 3y ago
Sigh. > though the driver must remain behind the wheel to take over when prompted That is a modal interface and the system may also decides to switch modes at will. Anytime a human is expected to wakeup from a mode and takeover from
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by vivegi 3y ago
No expertise is needed to say any os/device is likely to suffer an attack/exploit. Anyone who says that for any platformwill be right with a probability of 1.0
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by vivegi 3y ago
This is probably going to be even less successful than the Apple watch in terms of adoption. $3.5k for a personal device -- perhaps it will capture a niche. Genre defining like the iPod or iPhone, this isn't going to be.
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by vivegi 3y ago
Actually, Apple should consider making iMessage open source. Given it is such a popular attack vector, it probably benefits the ios ecosystem to take the benefit of open source scrutiny. There are other messaging apps like Signal, WhatsApp,
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by vivegi 3y ago
So, they discover a vulnerability in ios and publish the details of the symptoms of the exploit -- something that Apple themselves were unaware --, release a tool to detect indicators of compromise in iphone backups and yet, somehow they ha
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by vivegi 3y ago
From the comments section on Securelist page on Operation Triangulation https://securelist.com/operation-triangulation/109842/ <extract> > SECURELIST > Posted on June 2, 2023. 11:10 am > Hi Bil! &g
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by vivegi 3y ago
Latest update from Kaspersky. > June 02 2023 Update: triangle_check utility > We have developed and made freely available the triangle_check utility, that can detect indicators of compromise in an Apple device backup. Detailed instruc
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by vivegi 3y ago
I guess everyone at Kaspersky knew the risk of an attack was non-zero given their industry profile. Their SIEM finally caught it, albeit it is arguable if the detection was timely and as others in the thread have pointed out, their MDM shou
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by vivegi 3y ago
What is the role of the AI and what is the distinct role of the operator? It looks like this is a principal agent problem ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble... ): The principal–agent pro
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by vivegi 3y ago
From the article > We believe that the main reason for this incident is the proprietary nature of iOS. This operating system is a “black box”, in which spyware like Triangulation can hide for years. Detecting and analyzing such threats i
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by vivegi 3y ago
There are also schools in India (mostly in the large metros) that directly offer the IB and Cambridge Assessments for high school. They follow the same international curriculum.

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